Gardner Dozois

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  • Bibliography:
    114 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1958
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 114 titles

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

  • A Special Kind of Morning

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  • A Day in the Life;

    Stated first edition bound in purple cloth in VG+ condition. A lightly shelf worn copy. The dust jacket is in VG conditon. Wrinkling and dust soiling to the rear panel. SF anthology with stories by Samuel Delany, Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, Roge...

  • Nightmare Blue

    Nightmare Blue: the most addictive drug in the universe. The alien race known as the Aensalords alone know from whence it comes, and are its sole purveyors. Already its effects are visible on Earth?in the stark, raving eyes of the hopelessly addicted...

  • The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.

    32 pages with an essay by Gardner Dozois on the fiction of James Tiptree Jr. Originally published as the introduction to the G. K. Hall edition of 10,000 Light Years From Home one year before James Tiptree Jr. was revealed as Alice Sheldon. An insigh...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

  • Ripper

  • Time Travelers

    Presents a collection of time-travel adventures featuring many young science fiction writers exploring other dimensions and new realities, including Kim Antieau, John Kessel, Lewis Shiner, and Andrew Weiner...



  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

  • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Transcendental Tales

  • Seaserpents!

  • Slow Dancing Through Time

    Here are the short story collaborations of legendary editor and multiple Nebula Award winning author Gardner Dozois with some of the greatest writers of modern science fiction. Each story is followed by an essay by the collaborator discussing Dozois ...

  • Isaac Asimov's Aliens

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots

  • Modern Classics of Science Fiction

    Brian AldissWilliam GibsonR.A. LaffertyUrsula K. Le GuinLucius ShepardBruce SterlingTheodore SturgeonHoward WaldropConnie WillisGene WolfeRoger ZelaznyThe best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause ...

  • Isaac Asimov's Earth

    A collection of science fiction stories featuring the planet Earth includes stories by Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Marta Randall, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Rosenblum, Charles Sheffield, Dave Smeds, D. Alexander Smith, and Michael Swanwick. Original....

  • Geodesic Dreams

    As one of the most admired figures in science fiction, Gardner Dozois has built a reputation not only as an anthologist and editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, but as an award-winning writer himself. Now, in this comprehensive collection, Dozois pres...

  • Isaac Asimov's Sf-Lite

    Taken from the pages of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, a collection of humorous science fiction stories and essays includes contributions by Neal Barrett, Sharon N. Farber, Howard Waldrop, and Isaac Asimov. Original....



  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

  • Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams

    Ten stories of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and virtual reality--by Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Pat Cadigan, Eileen Gunn, Jonathan Lethem, and others--explore the future world of high technology. Original....

  • Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction

    In a tribute to the science fiction novella, more than a dozen masterpieces from the past three decades feature the work of Poul Anderson, Samuel R. Delany, Lucius Shepard, Cordwainer Smith, and other masters of the genre....

  • Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep

    Written by Kathe Koja, Pat Cadigan, James Patrick Kelly, Connie Willis and others, ten sensual, provocative science fiction stories set in a seductive but frightening future are culled from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction digest. Origin...

  • Isaac Asimov's Ghosts

    Twelve spinetingling tales of the supernatural include stories of stolen lives and restless spirits and highlight the writings of such authors as Connie Willis, Alexander Jablokov, Ester M. Friesner, and Lisa Goldstein. Original....

  • Killing Me Softly

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection

    The marvels of tomorrows past and tomorrows yet to come abound in this delightful volume. With two dozen imaginative and moving tales, this collection included the work of the finest writers in the field, among them: Poul Anderson, Terry Bisson, Pat ...

  • Isaac Asimov's Vampires

  • Modern Classics of Fantasy

    While humanity has been telling fantastic stories for millennia, fantasy fiction has only come into its own as a genre in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the works of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard have found a wide ...

  • Isaac Asimov's Moons

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    A collection of stories--by Terry Bisson, Tony Daniel, Robert Reed, Geoffrey Landis, Kim Stanley Robinson, Allen Steele, and R. Garcia y Robertson--explores the mysterious secrets of Earth's satellite. Original....



  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

    Join twenty-eight of today's finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylo...

  • Isaac Asimov's Christmas

    A collection of stories from the pages of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about how Christmas might look like centuries in the future, in alien lands, and the cold vastness of space features works by Connie Willis,,, Michael Swanwick,...

  • Isaac Asimov's Camelot

    Nebula Award-winning authors Roger Zelazny, Esther M. Friesner, Michael Swanwick, and others return to Camelot in ten tales of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table culled from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Origin...

  • Roads Not Taken

    With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been!

    Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tant...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

  • The Good Old Stuff: Adventure Sf in the Grand Tradition

    A compilation of sixteen science fiction tales, written between 1940 and 1970, such as "Moon Duel" and the "The Sky People", brings works together from such acclaimed writers as Jack Vance, H. Beam Piper, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, and Ursula K. Le...

  • The Good New Stuff: Adventure Sf in the Grand Tradition

    Once the mainstay of science fiction, adventure stories fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s. But in recent years, science fiction writers have spun out galaxy-spanning adventures as imaginative and wonderful as any of yesteryear''s ...

  • The Good New Stuff

    Once the mainstay of science fiction, adventure stories fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s. But in recent years, science fiction writers have spun out galaxy-spanning adventures as imaginative and wonderful as any of yesteryear's tale...

  • Isaac Asimov's Valentines

    Ten leading science fiction writers--including Robert Silverberg, Terry Bisson, Connie Willis, Lisa Goldstein, and Nancy Kress-explore the mysteries of love and the human heart, in an anthology of short stories originally published in Asimov's Sc...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

    The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:Willi...



  • Isaac Asimov's Solar System

  • Explorers: Sf Adventures to Far Horizons

    Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including:Poul Anderson...

  • Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day

    Sci-fi stylists Connie Willis, Tanith Lee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others serve up a Mother's Day feast in this collection of award-winning fiction from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Original....

  • The Furthest Horizon: Sf Adventures to the Far Future

    It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time--futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the most inventi...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sevententh Annual Collection

    In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever . . . and science fiction stori...

  • Isaac Asimov's Utopias

    A collection of short stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine offer thought-provoking, fantastical visions of what an ideal world should be, in tales by Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Bruce Sterling, Brian Stablefo...

  • Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois

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    A monumental collection of fiction and nonfiction by the award-winning writer and editor, Gardner Dozois, including perhaps the only World Science Fiction trip report you’ll ever find that is a lyrical and evocative piece bit of journalism in itsel...

  • Isaac Asimov's Father's Day

    Selected from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, this collection of creative stories explores the unique bond that exists between children and their fathers in "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" by Harry Turtledove, Pamela Sargent's "Amphi...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

    The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new ...

  • Issac Asimov's Halloween

    A collection of entertaining Halloween stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine includes Nancy Kress's "Renaissance," "The Shunned Trailer" by Esther M. Friesner, "Pickman's Modem" by Lawrence Watt-Evans, and other wo...



  • Worldmakers: Sf Adventures in Terraforming

    When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field:Poul AndersonCordwainer SmithArthur C. ClarkeRichard ...

  • Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future

    Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human formOur bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evo...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

    The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilit...

  • Strangers

    Living in a decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach, human artist Joseph Farber falls in love with Liraun, a humanoid Cian, despite the fact that love between races is forbidden, and allows himself to be genetically altere...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

    Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing ...

  • A.I.S.

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    Ten masters of speculative fiction, including Roger Zelazny, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, and Nancy Kress, explore the future of computerized intellect and how humanity will interact with machines that can outthink them--and are learning to outsm...

  • Morning Child and Other Stories

    A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois. Includes: "Morning Child," "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack ...

  • The Best of the Best

    For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Y...

  • Shadow Twin

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

    Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing ...

  • Galileo's Children

    From the most celebrated editor in science fiction comes an anthology of stories about the persecution of scientists. Each of the thirteen tales depicts the struggle to make progress against the dead blank wall of superstition and fear. This title in...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase

    Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase col...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

    In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has b...

  • The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels

    For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best c...

  • The Best of the Best, Volume 2

    For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best coll...

  • The New Space Opera

    What sets space opera apart from other fiction is its sheer scale: it is an exuberant celebration of the very large and the very small, of the very old and the very new, of the vast, panoramic instant we live in; the instant in which everything that ...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

    The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright n...

  • The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF

    Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross are just some of the high-profile names that feature in this volume of what is now regarded as essential reading for every science-fiction fan. Thi...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident?  The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection



    The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bri...

  • The New Space Opera 2

    Some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder Neal Asher John Barnes Cory Doctorow John Kessel Jay Lake John Meaney Elizabeth Moon Garth Nix Mike Resnick Justina Robson Kristine...

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  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16

    Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross are just some of the high-profile names that feature in this volume of what is now regarded as essential reading for every science-fiction fan. Thi...

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17

    Widely regarded as the essential book for every science-fiction fan, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories from the previous year. This year's volume includes not just a hos...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • The Furthest Horizon

    It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time--futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the most invent...

  • When the Great Days Come

    • Millions of tiny robots dismantle Atlantic City. A Luddite encounters time travelers near the moment of Singularity. A young boy may have just destroyed the entire Eastern Seaboard. By turns haunting and humorous, Gardner Dozois's acclaimed ...

  • Down These Strange Streets

    In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear... In “Death by D...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction : Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27

  • Dinosaurs!

    Earthshaking stories of the most fearsome creatures of all time.Authors include:L. Sprague de CampBrian W. AldissHoward WaldropHarry TurtledoveSteven UtleyBob BuckleySharon N. FarberEdward BryantArthur C. ClarkeJack Dann and Gardner DozoisJames Tiptr...

  • Multiverse

    A tribute to the late great science fiction icon Poul Anderson, and a wonderful collection of stories by some of the genres top writers! Authors include Tad Williams, Terry Brooks, Greg Bear, Raymond Feist, Larry Niven, and Eric Flint. Poul Anders...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28

    For decades now Gardner Dozois has been presenting his annual selection of the very best of recently published SF stories, both byoutstanding up-and-coming writers and undisputed masters of the genre. It has been voted Year's Best Anthology by the...

  • Warriors 1

    From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors: "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgam...

  • Warriors 2

    From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:"People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgame...

  • Warriors 3

    From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors: "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgam...

  • Mashup!

    Stories Inspired by Famous First LinesPride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first...

  • Rip-Off

    Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines

    Pride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of fa...

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

  • MASH Up

    Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines


    Pride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the rst lines of ...

  • Book of Swords

    New epic fantasy in the grand tradition -- including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s C...

  • The Book of Swords: Part 1

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • The Book of Swords: Part 2

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Sense of Wonder

    SENSE OF WONDER presents an epic set of short story reviews by a legend in the business -- all of Gardner Dozois' reviews from his Locus Magazine column from 2009-2017. If you wanted to know how one of the best editors and writers thinks about short ...

  • Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews

    SENSE OF WONDER presents an epic set of short story reviews by a legend in the business -- all of Gardner Dozois' reviews from his Locus Magazine column from 2009-2017. If you wanted to know how one of the best editors and writers thinks about short...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

    The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The wor...

  • The Book of Magic

    A new anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy -- featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many others! Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois’s acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes th...

  • The Very Best of the Best

    For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre. For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, af...

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF [19]

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  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 20

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 24

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 26

  • The Mammoth Book of the Best Short SF Novels

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: v. 23

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    In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line b...

Award-Winning Books by Gardner Dozois

Book of Swords
2018 Locus Award -- Anthology
The Book of Magic
2019 Locus Award -- Anthology
The New Space Opera
2008 Locus Award -- Anthology
The New Space Opera 2
2010 Locus Award -- Anthology
The Year's Best Science Fiction
2007 Locus Award -- Anthology
2009 Locus Award -- Anthology
2012 Locus Award -- Anthology


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gardner Dozois has published 114 books.

Gardner Dozois does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF [19], was published in September 2021.

The first book by Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, was published in August 1958.

No. Gardner Dozois does not write books in series.
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